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Descendants of soldiers who fought for the South during the American Civil War admit that, as time has moved on and political correctness has become the national trend, that their days of honoring their ancestors might be drawing to an end.

But officials of Prattville's Sons of Confederate Veterans fraternity said during Monday's local Confederate Memorial Day ceremony -- the sesquicentennial celebration of the war's onset and the departure of Autauga County troops to join the fight -- they will continue to conduct annual memorial ceremonies until their numbers are totally decimated.